By Dipa Kamdar, Senior Lecturer in Pharmacy Practice, Kingston University
Codeine is one of the UK’s most familiar painkillers, yet the same dose can be helpful, useless or risky depending on how a person’s body processes it.
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By Haosu Tang, Climate Scientist, University of Sheffield
In the middle of the Antarctic winter, during months of darkness when temperatures often dip below −30°C, the continent warmed dramatically.
In July and August 2024, temperatures in parts of East Antarctica rose by up to 28°C above average and stayed high for more than two weeks. To put that in perspective, a similar anomaly in the UK would push January temperatures into the mid-30°Cs.
In a recent study, colleagues…
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By Eerke Boiten, Professor of Cybersecurity, Head of School of Computer Science and Informatics, De Montfort University
What Palantir’s £330 million NHS data contract means for patients, privacy and the future of healthcare data in the UK.
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By Michelle Spear, Professor of Anatomy, University of Bristol
Your brain doesn’t run out of space – it runs out of attention. The science of why two people can live the same moment and remember it very differently.
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By Oula Kadhum, Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow in the Department of Politics and International Studies, SOAS, University of London
You could be forgiven for thinking everyone in Russia either supports the war in Ukraine or is too scared to do anything about it. A dominant narrative is that Russian civil society is passive, complicit or has been quashed to the point of being neutralised.
Some elements of this may be true. Following the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Russian citizens criticising the war or…
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By Renaud Foucart, Senior Lecturer in Economics, Lancaster University Management School, Lancaster University
With oil prices skyrocketing following the US and Israel’s bombing of Iran, and the subsequent closure of the Strait of Hormuz, motorists around the world have been looking for ways to save money. Improvements…
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By Cassandra Burke Robertson, Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Professional Ethics, Case Western Reserve University
Irina D. Manta, Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Intellectual Property Law, Hofstra University
The Justice Department has identified 384 foreign-born Americans whose citizenship it wants to revoke as “the first wave” of such measures, according to recent reporting by The New York Times. These cases are being assigned to prosecutors in 39 U.S. attorney’s offices across the country.
The administration has ordered Department of Homeland Security staffers to refer upward of 200 denaturalization cases per month to the Justice Department as part of its crackdown…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Prime Minister-elect Peter Magyar, the Tisza Party's leader, speaks to the media after the preparatory meeting for the inaugural session of the Parliament in Budapest, Hungary, April 17, 2026. © 2026 Robert Hegedus/MTI via AP Photo At his first international press conference, Hungary’s prime minister-elect Péter Magyar pledged to reverse his country’s move to leave the International Criminal Court (ICC).Magyar won a landslide victory in Hungary’s April 12 election, where he campaigned, among other things, on restoring rule of law and ties with the EU, opposing…
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By Guest Contributor
“War does not need to reach your doorstep to enter your home. It arrives quietly, through a screen, through a headline, through conversations not meant for young ears.”
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By Helen Pleasance, Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing and English Literature, York St John University
To pass the time while filming, before her eyesight deteriorated, actor Judi Dench could often be found sewing. The picture of submissive femininity, she sat bent over her needlework. The finished work however, which she gave as gifts, were actually expletive-filled insults worked in ornate embroidery.
There has been a resurgence…
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